The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things

Bertrand Russell

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

We're both damaged property, I guess. Plenty of time for renovation.

Orson Scott Card

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Katy Perry

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C.S. Lewis

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

John Arbuthnot

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Robert Half

To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

William S. Burroughs

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nelson Mandela

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

Saint Ambrose